Jordheim, Helge; Op de Beke, Laura; Bjordal, Sine Halkjelsvik; Zuiderveen Borgesius, Leonoor; Brenna, Brita & Flatø, Emil Henrik
[Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen](2022).
Fossilization, or the matter of historical futures .
History and Theory.
ISSN 0018-2656.
61(1),
s. 4–26.
doi: 10.1111/hith.12250.
Vis sammendrag
In this contribution to the “Historical Futures” project, the Lifetimes Research Collective adds to the geological turn currently underway in historiography by presenting a theory of fossils and fossilizations as a way of rethinking the concept of “historical futures.” We proceed by addressing two pivotal speech acts in Western historiography, in the broad sense: the “fossil question,” which was first raised in the middle of the seventeenth century, about how a solid can end up inside another solid and the nineteenth-century Marxist slogan for the modern world, “all that is solid melts into air.” Transported into the early twenty-first century and faced with the challenges of the Anthropocene, both take on new meanings and perform new tasks. In this article, we experiment with different ways of thinking and writing fossils into more general questions of historiography and historical theory by investigating how they affect conceptualizations of historical time. Furthermore, we demonstrate how fossilizations indicate possible trajectories for new materialist speculations, distributing agency to various matters, physical and virtual, in the Earth's crust as well as in museums and video games. Finally, we ask how a theory of fossilization can be seen to decenter the human subject by exploring the processes of decomposition and solidification taking place in the human body. In this way, the arrangements of timescales and lifescales that have given rise to disciplines like history, geology, and biology are destabilized in favor of open-ended historical knowledge ventures that transgress temporal and epistemological borders.
Münster, Ursula; Schroer, Asu Schroer; Van Dooren, Thom & Reinert, Hugo
(2021).
Introduction: Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction; Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights.
Cultural anthropology.
ISSN 0886-7356.
Münster, Ursula; Van Dooren, Thom; Schroer, Asu Schroer & Reinert, Hugo
(2021).
Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction.
Cultural anthropology.
ISSN 0886-7356.
Reinert, Hugo
(2020).
The Inhabited Sky: Notes on a celestial zoology.
I Jørgensen, Dolly & Jørgensen, Finn Arne (Red.),
Silver Linings : Clouds in art and science.
Museumsforlaget AS.
ISSN 9788283050899.s. 104–111.
Reinert, Hugo
(2019).
Requiem for a junk-bird: Violence, purity and the wild.
Cultural Studies Review.
ISSN 1446-8123.
25(1),
s. 29–40.
doi: 10.5130/csr.v24i1.6387.
Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Reinert, Hugo
(2019).
Les crânes et le cochon qui danse.
Terrain.
ISSN 0760-5668.s. 52–67.
doi: 10.4000/terrain.18076.
The article is about a space defined by the absence of birds. It is an attempt to examine certain aspects of silence—both the idea of it, and the experience—in the context of catastrophic species collapse and, more broadly, the unfolding planetary processes that some call the Sixth Extinction. Specifically, I am interested in experiences of silence that follow the disappearance or extinction of a species in a landscape. What happens when species disappear? What is to be done in (and with) the silence that they leave behind? What is the shape of such a silence and how is it to be approached, conceptualised, described, analysed? What might it have to say (so to speak) about issues such as climate change, biospheric collapse or the epochal geological ruptures of the Anthropocene: phenomena that unfold on scales defying those of human life or the human body, making themselves available to experience primarily in fragmentary, mediated or speculative forms?
Reinert, Hugo
(2018).
Notes from a Projected Sacrifice Zone.
ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies.
ISSN 1492-9732.
17(2),
s. 597–617.Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Benjaminsen, Tor A; Eira, Inger Marie Gaup; Johnsen, Kathrine Ivsett; Reinert, Erik; Reinert, Hugo & Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen
[Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen](2016).
Samisk reindrift - norsk forvaltning.
I Benjaminsen, Tor A; Eira, Inger Marie Gaup & Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen (Red.),
Samisk reindrift - Norske myter.
Fagbokforlaget.
ISSN 9788245017519.s. 223–226.
Benjaminsen, Tor A; Eira, Inger Marie Gaup; Reinert, Erik S.; Reinert, Hugo; Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen & Svarstad, Hanne
(2016).
Reindrift, makt og myter.
I Benjaminsen, Tor A; Eira, Inger Marie Gaup & Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen (Red.),
Samisk reindrift - Norske myter.
Fagbokforlaget.
ISSN 9788245017519.s. 9–26.
Sámi reindeer pastoralism in Norway is said to be in a state of crisis that has lasted for several decades and is due to excessive numbers of reindeer. A general overstocking of the range is believed to cause widespread pasture degradation, poor economic performance, and increasing land-use conflicts. These are the main assumptions of a dominant narrative shared by key government and non-governmental actors, most scientists, and the media. The resulting policy focuses on reducing reindeer numbers to set carrying capacities in order to promote ecological sustainability and improve economic performance through the means of increasing carcass weights. The article presents a critical review of the ecological evidence behind the dominant narrative. The authors conclude that the narrative and the associated policy lead to a misreading of the Arctic pastoral landscape that neglects both alternative scientific evidence and interpretations in line with non-equilibrium ecology as well as the indigenous knowledge of the reindeer herders. Hence, such alternative perspectives generally remain invisible to the government institutions that regulate the practice of reindeer management. Further, the authors’ study resonates with wider theoretical debates about state governance within political ecology and development studies in general.
Resilience thinking has growing purchase in the context of Arctic policy, resource
management and indigenous politics. The present text outlines and compares two
conflicting versions of the resilience concept, both currently at work in the field of
contemporary Norwegian Sa
́
mi reindeer pastoralism. First, while ecological resilience
originally emerged as a challenge to mainstream equilibrium ecology in the 1970s, we
identify and discuss here a strand of current research that links ‘resilience’ to the ability
of reindeer populations – and ecosystems – to maintain themselves in a steady state.
At the same time, another strand of resilience research – developed in large part with
(and by) indigenous pastoralists – uses the term to conceptualise the pastoral ecology
as a dynamic and unstable system, threatened by factors such as progressive pasture
loss, competing land-use forms and the ongoing pressure to ‘modernise’ production.
Contrasting these two versions of the resilience concept, we explore some of its
potential implications and uses in the context of resistance against dominant political
agendas.
Reinert, Hugo
(2012).
The disposable surplus: Notes on waste, reindeer, and biopolitics.
Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research.
ISSN 2076-8214.
4(3),
s. 67–83.
Benjaminsen, Tor A; Reinert, Hugo; Sjaastad, Espen Olav & Sara, Mikkel Nils Mikkelsen
(2013).
Misreading the Arctic Landscape? A Political Ecology of Reindeer, Carrying Capacity and “Overstocking” in Finnmark, Norway.